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CMC Application for Assistance

CMC Application for Assistance

The Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative (CMC) is a group of leading service providers that offer technical, programmatic, and outreach support for the integration of water quality and benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring data into the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership.

CMC assistance is available to eligible organizations at no cost, fill out the following application form to apply. If you have an existing monitoring program, please complete the Chesapeake Monitoring Census to tell us about your current monitoring efforts before completing the following application form. For additional information on the CMC, please visit Chesapeakemonitoringcoop.org.

Minimum eligibility requirements for seeking assistance:

Currently monitoring or interested in starting to monitor water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Willing to follow the CMC guidelines for sample collection, analysis, and quality assurance procedures or provide your current guidelines for sample collection, analysis, and quality assurance procedure for review

Willing to participate in the partnership for a minimum of one year

By accepting CMC assistance, your organization acknowledges all monitoring data will be uploaded into the Chesapeake Data Explorer database.

Review of your current monitoring program methods and quality assurance protocols, if you don’t want to adopt the CMC standardized methods or QAPPs

Submit an historical dataset

Data interpretation and analysis

Equipment selection

Other - Write InPlease enter an 'other' value for this selection.

4.New Monitoring Programs (Please select the type of monitoring program you want to create)

Benthic macrointertebrate monitoring

Water quality monitoring

Other - Write InPlease enter an 'other' value for this selection.

5. How will this assistance support your organization? How do you intend to use your data?

6.Service Providers(Please select any service providers you have previously worked with)

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)

Virginia Save our Streams

The Izaak Walton League of America Save Our Streams (not in Virginia)

Mid-Atlantic Tributary Assessment Coalition (MTAC)

Maryland Stream Waders of MBSS

West Virginia Save Our Streams

Audobon Naturalist Society

Trout Unlimited

Senior Environmental Corps

Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds (C-SAW)

Other - Write In (Required)Please enter an 'other' value for this selection. * This question is required.

The CMC was formed for the Integration of Citizen-based and Nontraditional Monitoring into the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership through the support of a cooperative agreement with the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program; ACB CB96334901 - Citizen and Non-traditional Monitoring